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The problem of immigration in a slaveholding republic : policing mobility in the nineteenth-century United States / Kevin Kenny

Kenny, Kevin [1960-]

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (x, 325 pages) : Illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Oxford scholarship online

Also issued in print: 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-758011-0 ; 978-0-19-758008-0

 

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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century America, this book shows how slavery shaped immigration policy in the United States during the years when states controlled mobility within and across their borders. Only after the abolition of slavery did Congress begin to implement a national immigration policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to the present day.